Montu priestly families at Deir el-Bahari in the Third Intermediate Period
Montu priestly families at Deir el-Bahari in the Third Intermediate Period

Summary/Abstract: The mostly intact Twenty-fifth Dynasty qrsw-coffin sets of Heresenes and Montu priests Padiamunet (iii) and Nespaqashuty (vi) were discovered on the Upper Terrace at Deir el-Bahari by Émile Baraize in 1932–1933, but have never been fully studied or published. The Twenty-second Dynasty intact cartonnage of the Hsyt n Xnw n imn Shauamunimes (Cairo TR 21.11.16.5) was purchased in Gurna in 1893, said to come from Sheikh Abd el-Gurna. Other coffin and cartonnage fragments belonging to Montu priests and Hsyt n Xnw n imn were found in recent excavations on the Upper Terrace of the Hatshepsut temple. This paper outlines the development of a necropolis particularly favored by Montu priests in the Hatshepsut temple and the area east of it. It describes the qrsw-coffin sets from the Baraize find and discusses the identity of several Hsyt n Xnw n imn named Shauamunimes from the Twenty-second to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty.

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